Assessment Objective

Determine if:

• SA-17(05)(a) the developer of the system, system component, or system service is required to design and structure the security-relevant hardware, software, and firmware to use a complete, conceptually simple protection mechanism with precisely defined semantics;
• SA-17(05)(b) the developer of the system, system component, or system service is required to internally structure the security-relevant hardware, software, and firmware with specific regard for this mechanism.

Assessment Methods

Examine

• System and services acquisition policy
• enterprise architecture policy
• procedures addressing developer security architecture and design specifications for the system
• solicitation documentation
• acquisition documentation
• service level agreements
• acquisition contracts for the system, system component, or system service
• system design documentation
• system security architecture documentation
• system configuration settings and associated documentation
• developer documentation describing the design and structure of security-relevant hardware, software, and firmware components
• system security plan
• other relevant documents or records

Interview

• Organizational personnel with system and service acquisition responsibilities
• organizational personnel with information security responsibilities
• system developer
• organizational personnel with information security architecture and design responsibilities

Tickets liés

• NIST -

  https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/sp/800/53/r5/upd1/final